rss1.x and Atom compared via AtomOwl

Hi,

     The AtomOwl [1] group has been working on backward engineering  
the semantics behind the Atom XML format. It seems to be stabilizing  
quite well, and is even finding useful applications as a language to  
SPARQL enable atom servers.

     I started looking at the blogging world a couple of years ago  
only, late in the game, which is probably why I have had the patience  
to look at the arguments with a fresh eye. I worked on the Atom  
group, because I thought that if something like this got started it  
was probably because they wanted to go beyond what had been done in  
the past. For a long time I thought that Atom could be like RSS1.x:  
an rdf and an xml format. But that was not to be. All this to say  
that I did not really choose a camp. I just fell into one.

     Now that we have an Ontology for Atom it should be really easy  
to work out what the similarities and the differences are, since we  
have 2 rdf vocabularies to work from. I thought the comparison could  
be quite instructive. Perhaps AtomOwl will just have a really simple  
mapping to RSS1.1? Perhaps Atom has introduced some new concepts that  
would not be so easy to backport to RSS1.x? I really don't know. But  
it may be instructive to find out.


	Henry Story



[1] http://bblfish.net/work/atom-owl/2006-06-06/


 
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